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A Portrait of Leonard Cohen as a Young Artist
A posthumous collection of early fiction, A Ballet of Lepers, chronicles how, in fits and starts, the singer came to understand the art of storytelling.
Sam Sodomsky
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March 28, 2023
The Puzzle of Ryan Lee Wong’s Activist Autofiction
In his debut, Which Side Are You On, he examines fractures in the Asian American community through the eyes of a recently radicalized college student.
Esther Kim
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March 20, 2023
The Defiance of Cormac McCarthy’s Late Style
In Stella Maris and The Passenger, McCarthy invites us to consider hopelessness not just to give us hope but to compel us to make use of it.
Nicolás Medina Mora
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March 16, 2023
Beautiful, Lonely, and Degraded: Gavin Lambert’s LA
In his 1979 novel The Goodby People, he finds a picturesque city defined by its sense of disconnection and immense sadness.
Kate Wolf
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March 14, 2023
Down and Out in Paris With Rainer Maria Rilke
In The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, the German poet’s only novel, a young artist contends with the contradictions of urban experience and the dream of pastoral life
Ratik Asokan
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March 2, 2023
Gwendoline Riley’s Biting Realism
By turns bracing and comical, her novels find in everyday domestic dramas the art of life.
Robert Rubsam
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March 1, 2023
A Comic That Captures the Antic Energy of a Post-Truth World
A conversation with the makers of The Department of Truth, a comic series that examines the intersection of American conspiracy and Western propaganda.
ML Kejera
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February 21, 2023
Let Kids Read Roald Dahl’s Books the Way He Wrote Them
The beloved author’s books are being edited by their publisher to suit contemporary sensibilities. That robs us of the author’s vision—and any sense of history.
Katha Pollitt
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February 13, 2023
Sevgi Soysal’s Liberation of the Mind
Her novel Dawn, which documents the discontents of the 20th century Turkish left, proposes that any account of historical upheaval requires equally radical artistic methods.
Shaj Mathew
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January 25, 2023
The Anxious Influences of Netflix’s “White Noise”
What has Noah Baumbach wrought in his adaptation of the 1985 postmodern novel?
Vikram Murthi